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Al Borland Corp. posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Oty5qVeOc This is hilarious because it appears this is the first time you've ever heard of Charles Barkley. Not even 24 hours later: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/charles-barkley-pledges-money-start-ups-not-hair-salons-article-1.3699112
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Barkley needs to shut up and jam. (Gaiden.)
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So I watched The Spirit last night since it's kind of a Christmas movie... I liked it. https://i.imgur.com/nH0F1Yz.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/22O4Z4U.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/Sat0Ayq.mp4
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Dec 26, 2017 22:34
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Obviously Charles Barkley must be replacing Chris Evans as Captain America to warrant this much discussion about him in the comic book movie thread.
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Dec 26, 2017 22:35
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SleepCousinDeath posted:So I watched The Spirit last night since it's kind of a Christmas movie... The Spirit is quite bad but admirably absurd. It's a hell of a lot better than Sin City 2.
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Dec 26, 2017 22:40
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Yeah, I can't hate on The Spirit. The solution to portraying a villain who's never been seen before being Samuel L Jackson in an increasingly different costume every scene is inspired.
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Dec 26, 2017 22:48
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Just watched Guardians of the galaxy 2, what a great movie,really enjoyed Kurt russel (as always) and Stan the man's cameo.
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SleepCousinDeath posted:So I watched The Spirit last night since it's kind of a Christmas movie... I honestly feel The Spirit is the most honest comic book movie. And until BvS it was about the only film that captured the grandiose absurdity of comics.
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I thought the story of Charles Barkley that he wasn't very political all the way through his college career - like paid absolutely zero attention to it - and when he got to the NBA, his agent was like "register to vote, it's an election year and you'll get asked about it and you don't want people reporting you're not even registered". Barkley asked what he should register as, his agent told him "Republican, they work towards you keeping your money", and so he did. Later he researched what else the Republican platform was, discovered how badly it hosed over poor people and black people, and has strived to push back against conservatism ever since.
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Just watched Guardians of the galaxy 2, what a great movie,really enjoyed Kurt russel (as always) and Stan the man's cameo. I also watched it tonight and thought scumbag Stan's cameo was poo poo. It's a weird movie that seems terrified of sincerity for 90% of its runtime, undercutting everything with more and more jokes, but then at the end it's just people crying and hugging and telling each other that they're all family. Every character seems to have the same arc (even the ones that aren't explicitly mirrored).
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The Cameo posted:I thought the story of Charles Barkley that he wasn't very political all the way through his college career - like paid absolutely zero attention to it - and when he got to the NBA, his agent was like "register to vote, it's an election year and you'll get asked about it and you don't want people reporting you're not even registered". Barkley asked what he should register as, his agent told him "Republican, they work towards you keeping your money", and so he did. Barkley's spent the last couple of years speaking out against Black Lives Matter, Trayvon Martin, and the like and for Zimmerman and Blue Lives Matter. Like, he had a show on TNT where he went to places like Ferguson to tell the communities it was their fault and the cops were on their side. So there's some problematic stuff inbetween "discovered conservatives were crazy" and "didn't want a pedophile as a senator." He endorsed John Kasich for President. He's a "sane Republican."
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The Cameo posted:I thought the story of Charles Barkley that he wasn't very political all the way through his college career - like paid absolutely zero attention to it - and when he got to the NBA, his agent was like "register to vote, it's an election year and you'll get asked about it and you don't want people reporting you're not even registered". Barkley asked what he should register as, his agent told him "Republican, they work towards you keeping your money", and so he did. Barkley literally spoke a few years ago at a Baltimore church where a fire broke out during the Freddie Gray riots, supported the police who murdered him, told the attendees that they lacked perspective because anyone poor was going to be the victim of discrimination, and told the mother of a police victim who ripped him that "I'm like the homecoming queen, all the ugly girls hate me, I'm used to it."
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The Cameo posted:I thought the story of Charles Barkley that he wasn't very political all the way through his college career - like paid absolutely zero attention to it - and when he got to the NBA, his agent was like "register to vote, it's an election year and you'll get asked about it and you don't want people reporting you're not even registered". Barkley asked what he should register as, his agent told him "Republican, they work towards you keeping your money", and so he did. That’s a story that may have been true at some point but he’s clearly internalized the really racist aspects of his party. A lot of his opinions about black people are about how they need to get their poo poo together and be “more white”. As a latinx person I see that poo poo all the time with republican latinx people who think immigrants need to get their poo poo together and do immigration the “right way”. Ghosthotel fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Dec 27, 2017 |
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Dec 27, 2017 03:04
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TheNewt posted:Can we get back to talking about Coco? Several cultures have similar events to dia de muertos, but some of them are in asia instead of central/south america. Shared ancestors and all that, its fascinating
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The Asian ghosts have it good, though. They not only get food, they also get cars and iPhones from living relatives.
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YOLOsubmarine posted:It’s good for the director and actors certainly. And possibly for increasing black representation in Hollywood. And it’s very good for the rich white dudes running Disney. In a world where independent women and B-plots centered around minorities cause a loud audience backlash, I'll take it.
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Dec 27, 2017 03:58
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Huh. Didn't know any of that, since the last time I ever noticed Barkley's name in the news was when he was still actually an active player. Surprised to find out he's a gigantic rear end in a top hat on that level.
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dont even fink about it posted:In a world where independent women and B-plots centered around minorities cause a loud audience backlash, I'll take it. Surprisingly, there isn't any backlash around Wonder Woman or Black Panther. There was backlash to women-only screenings of Wonder Woman, though, which says more about the screenings than the movie itself.
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sassassin posted:I also watched it tonight and thought scumbag Stan's cameo was poo poo. Sincerity's overrated,it's a movie with talking racoons and a guy called tazer face i'm not expecting gone with the wind. I thought yondu was the most compelling guy in the film but everyone had their moments.
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Dec 27, 2017 06:15
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Día de los Muertos is celebrated all over southern Texas and California not just Mexico.
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Tezcatlipoca posted:Día de los Muertos is celebrated all over southern Texas and California not just Mexico.
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TetsuoTW posted:Exactly, in Mexico. 
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wyoming posted:And until BvS it was about the only film that captured the grandiose absurdity of comics. Speed Racer and Punisher War Zone came out at about that time as well, though.
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Dec 27, 2017 11:25
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How is China going to edit the Black Panther movie posters
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Sincerity's overrated,it's a movie with talking racoons and a guy called tazer face i'm not expecting gone with the wind. On the contrary it actually succeeds in constructing several effective scenes with genuine emotional resonance in the first hour and a half, only to undercut them all with unnecessary gags/quips at the end. Some of that is in-character, clearly. The talking raccoon is hiding from his own feelings out of fear of abandonment/not being accepted, and acting out as a result. But everybody be quipping, even the characters who have an alternative outlet (Nebula). I found the funny scenes mostly funny (when they weren't simply laughing at how hilarious their own galaxy was like the tazer face thing), but there are a lot of damp squibs that made it feel like the director had the same feeling towards the genre that you have above. Until the ending it's like he didn't have faith that the audience could genuinely care about his characters. But cinematic history tells us that people care about talking animals more than anything!
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Uncle Wemus posted:How is China going to edit the Black Panther movie posters I saw a couple of Asian ones, and they only have the title character with his mask on.
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sassassin posted:On the contrary it actually succeeds in constructing several effective scenes with genuine emotional resonance in the first hour and a half, only to undercut them all with unnecessary gags/quips at the end. Some of that is in-character, clearly. The talking raccoon is hiding from his own feelings out of fear of abandonment/not being accepted, and acting out as a result. But everybody be quipping, even the characters who have an alternative outlet (Nebula). Thor 3 had the exact same problem
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The MSJ posted:I saw a couple of Asian ones, and they only have the title character with his mask on. Angry customers, tricked into seeing a movie about black people.
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Dec 27, 2017 15:01
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TetsuoTW posted:Exactly, in Mexico. This tired joke was never funny.
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Tezcatlipoca posted:This tired joke was never funny. ...joke?
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Rocket's arc in which he is adapting to become the protective father figure to the group instead of an equal team member is one of the more interesting character pieces in the Marvel films. That he's a cgi trash panda doesn't make it any more or less compelling.
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sassassin posted:Rocket's arc in which he is adapting to become the protective father figure to the group instead of an equal team member is one of the more interesting character pieces in the Marvel films. For me, it wasn't interesting or compelling, it was maudlin and cringey. One second he's making cracks and the next he's crying about what a terrible person he is and promises to be better, all because the mohawk smurf sassed him.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:...joke? Way too many racist rednecks up here and the tex mex culture is different.
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There's racist redneck equivalents in Mexico too tho. I get the business every time I open my mouth and speak broken Spanish around them. Those racist Americans are just a different flavor is all.
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McCloud posted:For me, it wasn't interesting or compelling, it was maudlin and cringey. One second he's making cracks and the next he's crying about what a terrible person he is and promises to be better, all because the mohawk smurf sassed him. His spoken arc about being just like the rooker with a heart of gold (a retread of GotG1) isn't his actual arc (defined by his actions like shooting Gamora in the back for her own good). Rocket's arc is about becoming David Hasselhoff. Watch him fail to successfully integrate Quinn's music into his arsenal. He can't go on competing with Quinn, he has to become his new "daddy" (without the sexual abuse this time).
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josh04 posted:I don't have PM's, but I'd be very excited to be shot a link at josh04 at gmail dot com. Same, g.dearien at gmail
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ruddiger posted:There's racist redneck equivalents in Mexico too tho. I get the business every time I open my mouth and speak broken Spanish around them. Those racist Americans are just a different flavor is all. If you are white they won't care, you will be like "cool a gringo", if you are latino you'll get mocked and ask to drop the act and speak good Spanish. if you are latino but not mexican get ready for getting lots of "you've come to steal are mexican jobs" hate. I've seen Venezuelans getting a lot of poo poo like that where I live, and most passing migrants are accused of being rapists and robbers (while forgetting a large part of crime is committed by locals and the cartels). So anyways, you need to drop your rear end in an actual tiny backwater mexican town so you sort of realize not everything in Coco was a stereotype, or at least it wasn't that terrible. NOW Disney's installment on their parks. Oh boy. OH BOY. 
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Uncle Wemus posted:How is China going to edit the Black Panther movie posters Black Panda
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ruddiger posted:There's racist redneck equivalents in Mexico too tho. I get the business every time I open my mouth and speak broken Spanish around them. Those racist Americans are just a different flavor is all. There's a big difference between "you aren't a real Mexican because your Spanish is different" and "Mexicans in this country should be shot." I wouldn't say that is equivalent.
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DeimosRising posted:Same, g.dearien at gmail sent
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